GLASS TABLE DECORATIONS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 4

GLASS TABLE DECORATIONS.

(By Faith Foster). There i 3 now no need to repine that the exquisite glass trees and plants are beyond your means. All the necessary petals and leaves with vhich to make your own table decorations are available at a cost which i absurdly small as compared with that asked for the plants complete. To the inexperienced eye, thgse glass oddments may appear a little unpromising but you will soon learn how, with the aid of a little wire, you may work up the tiny blue, pink and rose blossoms into closely set hyacinths, or use them as single, flowers in a big Solomon ' s Seal, or pose them as parts of a great delphinium. The joy of experimenting is that you may achieve a far greater variety than is exploited in the ordinary bought examples. Most attractive are the little balls of orange-tinted glass that go to make orange-trees; lovely are the fantastic and quite unbotanical plants that are built up by means of carefully wired bits of rough coral, allied to leaves and stems of pure white glass. Happily, the leaves are made in a variety of shapes and sizes so that a wide range of flowers may be attemped. Delicately tinted flowers that suggest convolvuli are exquisite for working into wreaths for the frames cf small mirrors and photographs. None of the glass products is liable to fade, so that the decorations, once developed, can be relied upon, to prove permanent. Small glass pots, solid save for a .small hole in the centre into which the wired stem of the plant or trunk of the tree s is fixed, are sold for use with the work. *E > ots of glazed pottery are also available in tiny sizes.